I feel like the best topic for me to blog about is
materialism. Materialism is in everyone somehow or another. I would say that I can
be materialistic at times. Saying that I like to have money but I am willing to
work hard for it. But I could never see myself owning $400 dollar jeans that
just seems ridiculous to me. It’s okay to casually want to go to a nice dinner
but to want something over something you need doesn’t seem right. Some people
have the privilege of being materialistic by having lots of money. While others
almost wish that they could be materialist just because they may have nothing
at all.
Tocqueville like many other socialist says that materialism
is very problematic in society. He says numerous times that people are turning
into aristocrats more and more these days. The things people look up to are
usually people with money and the people who have it “all”. But we need to
realize is that we need to stop living up to what everyone elses lives
live. Yes, in this society people do
need to have money to survive but we should live by the smaller amount of
money. I’m almost positive that people can live with jeans from Old Navy other
than Gucci. It is made from the same material and probably looks and feels the
same as Old Navy. This society has a constant hunger for new things and to have
the next best things. And to have new things it will eventually have a costing
to the environment. I posted a video
that gives a visual example of what I am trying to say. What kind of world
would we be in if we took away all the materialist items? Well, the movie which
is advertised in the YouTube video below. I would love to see this world
without the rich celebrities and other materialistic people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_z3NDXtm64
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